Xuthl’s Wilderness Comics and Collectibles Comic Reviews

Well I went to Commonwealth Stadium last night to watch the Eskimos play host to the CFL best Saskatchewan Roughriders.  There were about 50,000 people in attendance, and if you judged the crowd solely on the basis of our section, you had to believe that about 35,000 of them were ‘Riders fans.  I’m sure you could hear a rat fart on the Saskatchewan prairie from ten miles away last night, because half of the damn province was at the football game in Edmonton!

‘Rider pride is always a fun phenomenon to witness.  I swear, every Roughrider fan alive must own a ‘Riders jersey.  They showed up in their jerseys, with faces painted, and wearing all sorts of corny gear.  Quite a few fans were wearing helmets made from watermelons (or great imitations!).  One guy was wearing a Darth Vader mask with a football helmet and, of course, a ‘Riders jersey.  Another had a shirt that said something like, ‘Go Riders’ on the front and ‘Edmonton chicks think I’m hot!’ on the back.  We got a good laugh out of that one.

The beer was flowing and, having attended the labor day rematch against Calgary in the past, I was expecting things to get a little out of hand by the end of the game.  Usually the Calgary game features more than a few battles in the stands as well as on the field.

Maybe it was just the fact that Saskatchewan lost, or maybe the Rat-landers just have way more class than our neighbors to the south, but the trouble I was expecting just never happened.  There was a good sized brawl near us, but it could not have involved any ‘Riders fans since there were no jerseys involved in the fight and, as I established in the second paragraph, Saskatchewanians seem to be issued their ‘Rider wear at birth!  Other than that one incident I did not see anything to suggest that the visiting fans were there to do anything except support their team.

Nice job Roughrider fans.  You are a real classy group!  I can only hope the hicks from Cow-town can behave as well in September.